Rural studio

After a number of years of sophomore students undertaking flamboyant and outrageously formed projects with no clear materials palette and little understanding of the process of simple platform-frame construction, the Rural Studio attempted a more disciplined approach. The resulting house, is clean and crisp and rather more akin to the surrounding trailers than the previous… Read More →

Seeking to open the under-explored east side of the park to pedestrian visitors, a bridge was deemed necessary to span a creek. The resulting covered bridge comprises three steel and wood triangular sections: the outer two sections supporting the central section. When joined together, and covered with salvaged tin, the 3 sections create one long… Read More →

An efficient and simple construction, this pavilion used many local materials that were either found or donated. The floor of the pavilion is a brick pad which allows for more deliberate activities to happen beneath the cover of the roof. The pad is also elevated and retained with railroad ties that reference the locomotive history… Read More →

Rural Studio is a housing project at Auburn University. Here's a little bit about this particular project, the 20k House (Version 2). The Outreach Program was conceived as a way to bring outside students and collaborators

Stephen Slaughter shares his thoughts on environmental justice, his work with non-profits, and more in this Friday Five.

Rose Lee’s House is the result of two semester’s work of the 2nd Year Studio at Auburn University Rural Studio, in West Alabama. Rural Studio is an...

London-based Caukin Studio has added four classrooms built from locally sourced materials to the Evergreen School in Zambia.

The design for Rev. Walker’s Home is a response to the phenomena of home expansion that is common in rural areas: instead of selling and moving, homeowners often expand their current houses. The problem is that additions often undermine the original home and become points of failure in roof and foundation, often leading to catastrophic… Read More →

Architecture studio Bornstein Lyckefors chose an unusual shade of green for the exterior of Granholmen, a humble cabin on the Swedish island of Kallaxön.